Alexander Maslyakov

Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov (; 24 November 1941 – 8 September 2024) was a Soviet and Russian television game show host. Maslyakov's most notable as the leader and presenter of the TV show KVN from 1964 to 2022.

Game shows Maslyakov had been working in television since 1964. He had hosted numerous game shows in this time, including Hello, We Looking for Talents, Addresses of Young Ones, Fun Kids, the long-running Come on, Girls, in which young women competed against one another in skills such as cooking, dancing, or milking cows, and its short-lived counterpart for young men, Come on, Guys. He was also the first host (1974) of what subsequently became one of Russia's longest-running game shows, What? Where? When?.

Maslyakov was the regular host of Soviet coverage of World Festivals of Youth and Students, held in such major world capitals as Sofia, Havana, (East) Berlin, Pyongyang, and Moscow, as well as hosting a number of popular Soviet Eurovision-style lip-synching song competitions over the years. He was a Merited Figure of the Arts of the Russian Federation, 1994 laureate of the Ovation prize,

Personal life and death Maslyakov was born in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) on 24 November 1941. He was married to Svetlana and had a son, Alexander, who also entered the entertainment industry.

Maslyakov died from lung cancer in Moscow, on 8 September 2024, at the age of 82.

Filmography Arch-chi-medes! (1975) as entertainer I Don't Want to Be an Adult (1982) as TV presenter How to Become Happy (1985) as competition host